July 01

• Zimbabwe: The Big Flush - a Drop in the Bucket

  Last July the Bulawayo City Council closed the taps to preserve the southwestern city’s dwindling water supplies. For 48 hours of every week, they turned off running water to... Read more »

• Togo: Afloat in Water, but Still Thirsty

  In Lomé, the capital of the tiny West African country of Togo, many citizens still fetch water from traditionally built hand-dug wells, water that may not be safe to drink.... Read more »

• Namibia: Caught Between Rocks and Hard Places

  The Namibian fishing industry, widely considered one of Africa’s bestmanaged, is heading for stormy waters. A combination of a depressed Spanish market, rising operating... Read more »

• Mozambique: Fishing and Tourism Collide

  Adelino Francisco Huo spent most of his teenage years rising before dawn and climbing aboard a dhow, a small wooden boat with triangular sails. Mr Huo and a small group of boys and... Read more »

• South Sudan: Dams, Droughts, Desertification and Water Wars

  Water, not oil, will determine the economic fate and well-being of Sudan and South Sudan. In many African countries, sewage, mud and other contaminants compromise water, health and... Read more »

• East Africa: The Struggle to Control the Nile's Water

  Strong emotions rise to the surface when discussions turn to the Nile, the world’s longest river. Most debate swirls around control of its basin which is shared by 11 African... Read more »

• Lesotho: Quenching South Africa's Thirst

  Lesotho is a tiny mountainous country completely enclosed by South Africa. One of the world’s poorest, its economy is almost entirely dependent on South Africa’s for... Read more »

• Senegal: New Government Tries to Combat Overfishing

  Large foreign trawlers are sweeping West Africa's seabed, undermining the environment, reducing fish stock and destroying the livelihoods of artisanal fishermen. Read more »

June 01

• South Africa: Who Is Your Councillor?

  I have a confession to make. It is an uncomfortable admission as I am a South African journalist, a political analyst, someone who considers himself a reasonably engaged citizen: I... Read more »

• Algeria: More of the Same [analysis]

  With Algeria’s president recovering in a Paris hospital from a mini-stroke, observers are questioning his continued ability to govern and whether he will run again in the... Read more »

• Kenya: Elections - Observing the Observers [analysis]

  Election day dawns in downtown Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It is still dark as queues of people snake around several blocks of the inner city. Read more »

• Africa: To Hold a Credible Election, Bring in the Foreigners

  Do-gooding outsiders can make or break elections in countries emerging from war. Read more »

• Africa: The Rocky Road to Elections

  The path from dictatorship to democracy is riddled with roadblocks. Read more »

• Madagascar: Cranking Up a New Electoral Engine

  Madagascar is priming itself for the island's most important elections in a decade. Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Voters Are Unbeaten, for a Change

  Three army-green tents stand on a large and littered field caught between a main road and a wall of derelict apartment blocks in Mbare, a working-class suburb of Harare. Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Fear and Loathing

  Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, backed by a powerful military and his ruling party's vast wealth from the eastern Marange diamond fields, is set to fight for his political... Read more »

May 01

• Kenya: Appy Agriculture [analysis]

  John Mwangi stands in his wooden shed counting bags of maize neatly bundled in burlap. Read more »

• Algeria: Putting Dissent On Hold [analysis]

  Was it coincidence or was it deliberate? Read more »

• Burkina Faso: Tomato Catch-Up - Getting Produce to Market

  Each day scores of lorries laden with tomatoes, onions and other fresh vegetables start the 1,000km trip from landlocked Burkina Faso to Accra, Ghana's capital on the Atlantic... Read more »

• Africa: Nigeria Follows Kenyan Example for Mobile Banking

  More people in Africa use their mobile phone to bank than in any other region in the world. Read more »

• Africa: Digital Did Not Kill the Radio Star [analysis]

  Radio threatens many of Africa's big men. Read more »

• Africa: Continent Changes Its Tune to Genuine Digital Downloads [analysis]

  For years, pirate distributors at the Alabo international market in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, dominated the music distribution business. These fraudsters had the... Read more »

• Africa: Where Does the Hardware Come From? [analysis]

  Nathan Road is Hong Kong’s busiest shopping street. It is lined with skyscrapers and decorated with neon signs of every size, colour and shape. Read more »

• Africa: The Rising Power of Social Media in Politics [analysis]

  Opposition parties in Africa have struggled for decades in a media environment that favours incumbents. Read more »

• Africa: Big Brother, Too [analysis]

  Armed with a mobile phone, anyone can share news stories, video footage and radio broadcasts with the world. Read more »